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Indian Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said he gave the go-ahead to bug Niira Radia’s phone to further a tax-evasion investigation.

So you think you’ve already heard the damning evidence in 2G-Gate, Radia-Gate, Barkha-Gate, Raja-Gate, or whatever you want to call it?

Well, think again.

Indian Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said in an interview that the roughly 100 tapes that have been leaked to the Indian media – recordings of wiretapped calls between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and the country’s journalistic and political power brokers – barely scratch the surface of the stuff that will be at the heart of the government’s investigation. Read More »

Amid that firestorm, though, there’s been much less scrutiny of why and how the wiretaps happened in the first place, whether they were justified or a governmental overreach, and how these infamous tapes got from the government into the hands of media companies. Read More »

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